Publications

Chen, F., and Stevens, R.* (2017). Applying
lessons from behavioral economics to increase flu vaccination rates.Health Promotion International 32, 1067-1073. [Link to article about this paper on the Medical Economics website][Link to our summary of this paper on the Atlas of Science website][Link to Wake Forest News article about this paper]

Chen, F., and Regan, R.* (2017). Arts and craftiness: An economic analysis of art heists.Journal of Cultural Economics 41, 283-307. [Link to our post about this paper that we were invited to write for the EconomistsTalkArt blog--the post contains original artwork by Maggie Pyle*]

Chen, F. (2017). The economics of synthetic rhino horns.Ecological Economics 141, 180-189. [Link to Wake Forest News article about this paper][Link to Innovators Magazine article about this paper][Link to Inside Science article that talks about this paper][Link to episode of Academic Minute in which I talk about synthetic horns][Link to Chemical & Engineering News article that talks about this paper][Link to Fast Company article in which I talk about synthetic horns]

Chen, F. (2013). The economic approach to modeling self-protective behavior in epidemiology. In P. Manfredi and A. d'Onofrio, eds., Modeling the Interplay Between Human Behavior and the Spread of Infectious Diseases. New York: Springer.

Chen, F., Griffith, A., Cottrell, A., and Wong, Y.-L. (2013). Behavioral responses to epidemics in an online experiment: using virtual diseases to study human behavior.PLOS ONE 8(1), e52814. [Link to Freakonomics podcast in which I talk about this research][Link to Wake Forest News article about this paper]

Chen, F. (2012). A mathematical analysis of public avoidance behavior during epidemics using game theory.Journal of Theoretical Biology 302, 18-28.